Terra Alta

By Javier Cercas

Book Overview

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - WINNER OF SPAIN'S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE - The first book in the acclaimed series: Barcelona detective Melchor Mar?n is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems.

Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Mis?rables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop.

This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Catalonia--the murder of a wealthy local man and his wife--will turn Melchor's life upside down yet again.

Even the Darkest Night is a thought-provoking, elegantly constructed thriller about justice, revenge, and, above all, the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593318803
• ISBN13: 9780593318805
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"